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Acceptance Record

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All Theories

The following definitions of the term have been suggested:
TheoryFormulationFormulated In
Sufficient Reason (Palider-2019)An agent takes theory A to be a sufficient reason for (accepting) theory B iff the following four conditions are met:

(1) The agent accepts A.

(2) The agent accepts that AB.

(3) The agent employs ε.

(4) The agent accepts (ε, A, AB) →ε (Should accept B).
2019
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Accepted Theories

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Suggested Modifications

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Modification Community Date Suggested Summary Verdict Verdict Rationale Date Assessed
Sciento-2019-0010 Scientonomy 23 December 2019 Accept the new definitions of sufficient reason, reason, support, and normative inference. Open

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Ontology

Existence

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Disjointness

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Subtypes

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Supertypes

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Associations

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